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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Visiting Hampshire this weekend to say goodbye, I was struck by the sense memory of having been somewhere, once, where I was trusted and supported by the institution & community as a whole. Where everyone believed that me following my interests, values and passions was not a threat to others but […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@lance I don't think "accept that ship has sailed" is super helpful either. People have valid reasons to be deeply wary of the way AI is being developed and used. I don't think shame and ridicule are likely to create space for those valid reasons to be heard and responded to, but neither will […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I don't think shame works and I don't think it's the way forward here.

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Two @HalifaxExaminer "reporters thrown out of EverWind data centre announcement" by EverWind Fuels www.halifaxexaminer.ca/journalism/h… #NSPoli

Screenshot of linked article, with photo of billboard for the new data centre.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

“The century was incapable of responding to the new technological possibilities with a new social order.” A few half-formed thoughts, inspired by the Frankfurt School, on how technological changes can alienate us from each other and ourselves, and the dangers that poses to all of us […]

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

If you haven't been paying attention to this story, it's truly wild - a supposed European alternative to big tech social media that lured in politicians and made waves but is incredibly poorly thought-out and is effectively doxxing its users. @_elena has been on it from the beginning […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

New from #SPARC (@sparc): "For the first time, researchers can count the investment that goes into a research article before a publisher ever sees it, and it shows who really pays for knowledge: the public. Set against independent estimates of publishing costs, more than 95% of the total […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The adds running in here are despair inducing though. A vanguard ad "of the investor, by the investor, for the investor" (as if their investment funds, which have regularly used their combined voting power to support Elon Musk, are meaningfully democratic" and another ad, can't see for what […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Sometimes I forget how pretty union station is

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Howdy! I have a client that's hiring a data engineer (ideally with Snowflake experience, but they'll take anyone smart enough to figure it out) in Canberra. I can arrange for the automated screens and the like to be skipped, and the interviews will not have any leetcode-style nonsense. I've […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

All the editors of Elsevier's 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 just resigned in protest at Elsevier's firing of one editor and attempt to hire new editors without involving the current board. The Game Theory Society is cutting off its association with the journal, and "exploring the establishment of […]

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Avoid anti-goldfish language! Be aware that when you accuse someone of having the memory of a goldfish, you are actually saying they have a prodigious ability to remember places and the overall spatial layout of their territory, allowing them to expertly navigate […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

From the paper: Interestingly, goldfish are able to use not only the information provided by con- spicuous objects in the environment, but also the geometrical attributes of the surroundings for spatial navigation, and conjoin geometric and nongeometric information to reorient themselves.35-38 In summary, these findings re- veal that teleost fish can reach the goal location by learning its position relative to the land- marks and other features of the environment, by using any available spatial information and by encoding the reciprocal metric and geomet- ric relationships relative to the goal, thus indi- cating distinctly they have the capacity to use relational memory mechanisms (Fig. 1).

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I forgot today was the trade deadline and was not prepared for this much #nwsl chaos

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I don't understand how speech to text on my phone seems to actively be getting worse all the time

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Is there ever a week where this doesn’t come in handy?

Captain Haddock saying “what a week, huh?”, with Karl Marx replying “Comrade, it’s Capitalism”

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I just discovered they updated signal so you can pin more than 4 chats and it's probably a bad sign that I'm this excited about it

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

On that last point: if the app won't let you do something, well, you're stuck. Crying "This app sucks" online into the void is about all you can realistically do. But a website? If they try to block cutting & pasting, you can override that. If it's full of ads (or other problems), you can […]

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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Clark Breyman (he/him) @clark.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

More amazing from @skamille skamille.medium.com/the-managers-pa… @RuthMalan - relevant to your interests: "My suggestion is one that I suspect some will dislike: I think you actually need to spend more time talking to people. You’ve got all of these […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I think people do this because it helps them feel righteous about their position, which is a small measure of comfort/control in the face of overwhelming odds. You may be helpless but at least you're morally correct! But choosing community with other flawed human beings over moral correctness […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1173503736136… Trying to seperate people into the groups "deserves to be exploited by big tech" and "does not deserve to be exploited by big tech" will not in fact prevent anyone in the latter group from being exploited by big tech

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

dentist gave me a prescription for extra strength motrin because "you'll want this" 😬😬😬

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I cannot get Action Network to send confirmation emails and I'm tired of trying. What alternative should I switch to?

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

i accidentally poked my cat in the eye and now i must throw myself into the sea

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@blair_fix/11733294… This is a fascinating analysis. Although it does not explain the dynamic in American politics where the states that benefit most from financialization tend to want to restrict it. A symptom of the conflation of business and industry? […]

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Adversarial interop and open source can emerge during the early stages of disruption for this reason. You don’t have time to lock down and extract every little thing when there’s a huge greenfield in front of you. Moving fast has higher upside, even if you cede vast tracts of territory.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

If you have some time this weekend to change your relationship to the weirdness of AI, want to try being an early adopter of the Inference Cooperative—a member-governed platform with private, green-energy, and public models: inference.coop It's an attempt to build for AI what […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Sometimes asking a question technology could answer is a bid for connection, not laziness. RTFM/LMGTFY can be a choice to refuse relating—which people sometimes need! But I wonder if we're heading toward ATFAI (Ask The Fucking AI), and what that means for us […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

We live in a world of ever increasing abstraction held together by human trust in all the joints and footings. AI and other technologies that abstract away and replace human connection are quickly eroding all the load bearing bits.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Wow, the justice system really works!

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glynmoody/11730337… "For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent."

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Dental advice line says this is not an emergency and I can wait to see someone until next week (provided I take various precautions) so I am still heading wedding-wards

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@shauna/117297867018522… i feel like some trickster god doesn't want me going to this wedding because i grabbed a quick bite to eat before my flight and my tooth came out 😭

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Update: ok, they did book me on the jetblue competitor flight at no extra cost, which arrives 45 minutes earlier than the delayed flight and means I *should* be able to make the wedding! though it will be close and i'll have to go directly there and bring my bags etc. it took 2 hours and a lot […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

doing web searches on american airlines while i wait on hold (again) and it turns out they're actually significantly worse than most of the other major carriers? i don't know how i'm supposed to keep track of this shit, though. i feel like i basically have to wait to get burned and then that […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I am now back on hold for the third time this morning, in order to point out this competitor flight they are legally obligated to book me on but MySterIOUSly missed on my last call. When this is over I will have spent a cumulative hour and a half on hold. Another fun fact about American - their […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

oh cool they ignored a competitor flight that would have worked and gotten me there an hour earlier in time for the ceremony. LOVE that for us

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

love to have my flight delayed by 4 hours, spend half an hour on hold before getting to talk to an agent, have the agent accidentally end the call, wait on hold another half hour, only to be told the only flight they could possibly have rebooked won't work because i spent an hour waiting on hold […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

just thinking about the spaces in my life where i've chosen efficiency over resilience, and whether/how i can reverse that decision

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malte @malte.radikal.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Women often latch on to men's wear and men's fashion trends - to an extent that we often do not even notice it as "men's wear". The opposite is much more rare. When men browse the women's section, one takes it as "cross-dressing". I envy the range of shapes and colors in women's clothes, but […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

This makes me really sad to read. I totally get the anger at AI being used here, but the move from "I feel anger" to "therefore I am justified in venting my anger without empathy or compassion" is just like... what are we doing. How is this going to make anything better […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Why are armadillo and quesadilla pronounced differently in English? Why are we like this?

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